ermine's

My own earliest ermine was humbler still, being constructed of the very democratic white canton flannel turned wrong side out, while the ermine's characteristic little black tails were formed by short bits of round shoe-lacing.

Stage Confidences Clara Morris

The ermine's black tip was the only indication of his presence.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

I confess to being wholly confounded till I remembered that the ermine's coat turns grey in the summer, and he is never trapped then.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

They say that if mud be placed around the ermine's nest he will die rather than soil his coat by crossing it, and so is trapped.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

I used to think this quite a pretty story, but since I have seen the ermine's habitat I know how utterly impossible it is.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

The ermine's black tip was the only indication of his presence.

The Silent Places 1904

Jean or his companions had moved, and at their head was Kaskisoon, the Cree: tall, slender as a spruce sapling, and with eyes that went searchingly from face to face with the uneasy glitter of an ermine's.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

But the forest man's fighting is filled with the elusive ermine's trickery and the lithe quickness of the big, fur-padded cat of the trap-lines.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

Jean or his companions had moved, and at their head was Kaskisoon, the Cree: tall, slender as a spruce sapling, and with eyes that went searchingly from face to face with the uneasy glitter of an ermine's.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

But the forest man's fighting is filled with the elusive ermine's trickery and the lithe quickness of the big, fur-padded cat of the trap-lines.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903